Saxon James is an Australian author of male-male contemporary romance. Her books cover college friendships, professional hockey, divorced men rebuilding their lives, accidental roommates, small-town communities, fake relationships, family complications, and second chances.
Her bibliography is easier to understand when divided by authorship and continuity. Several series are written by Saxon James alone, while CU Hockey and Puckboys are co-written with Eden Finley. Those collaborative hockey books belong to a larger shared universe often called the Sadenverse.
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Most Saxon James novels follow a new couple and provide a complete romantic ending. Series order still matters because friends, roommates, teammates, relatives, and previous couples continue to appear.
Start Here Without Studying the Whole Bibliography
Readers do not need one universal starting point.
- Start with Just Friends for small-town friends-to-lovers romance.
- Start with Roommate Arrangement for older characters and the Divorced Men’s Club.
- Start with King of Thieves for college fraternity rivalry.
- Start with The Husband Hoax for found family and relationship arrangements.
- Start with Power Plays & Straight A’s for co-written college hockey.
- Start with Egotistical Puckboy for professional hockey.
- Start with Wilde’s End for Saxon James’s newer family-centered series.
- Start with Home Ice for an independent hockey romance without a long series commitment.
The Important Continuity Boundaries
Saxon James’s solo series are not all branches of one story.
Never Just Friends is set around the small town of Sunbury. Frat Wars follows rival fraternity houses. Divorced Men’s Club focuses on a friendship group of older divorced men. Accidental Love follows a Seattle household and its extended found family.
Characters and references may occasionally cross between Saxon James’s books, but those appearances do not turn every solo series into one mandatory sequence.
CU Hockey and Puckboys are different. They are co-written with Eden Finley and connect to a much larger hockey and queer found-family universe. Readers can enjoy either series independently, but completing CU Hockey before Puckboys provides more background for recurring players and relationships.
Reckless Love Books in Order
Reckless Love was originally published as Love’s a Gamble. The stories were later retitled, which is why older reading lists may show two names for the same books.
Do not count the original and revised titles separately.
Denial
Denial (2019): Rainer responds to emotional conflict by escaping to a tropical island, where distance from his ordinary life forces him to consider the attraction and feelings he has been avoiding.
The book was originally titled Good Times and Tan Lines. It functions as a prequel to the two principal Reckless Love novels.
Risky
Risky (2020): Taryn makes a wager involving the football player connected to her former boyfriend, only for revenge, attraction, and unexpected loyalty to blur the purpose of the bet.
The book was originally published as Bet on Me. It is the first main Reckless Love novel.
Tempting
Tempting (2020): Zane reunites with Liam years after their earlier connection, creating a second-chance romance complicated by distance, friendship, and feelings neither man fully left behind.
The original title was Calling Your Bluff. Read it after Risky because the friendship circle carries between the books.
Reckless Love Reading Order
Use the current titles in this order:
- Denial
- Risky
- Tempting
Older editions remain the same stories:
- Good Times and Tan Lines
- Bet on Me
- Calling Your Bluff
Never Just Friends Books in Order
Never Just Friends follows a connected group of men in Sunbury, Oregon. Friendship is the main organizing thread, with former best friends, roommates, employers, firefighters, and men reconsidering their sexuality taking turns at the center.
The romances are complete within each novel, but the town and friendship group develop from one book to the next.
Just Friends
Just Friends (2020): Roo returns to Sunbury after five years away, still in love with Tanner, the lifelong best friend who has never understood why their bond feels different from his other friendships.
The novel establishes Sunbury and the central group. It is the correct first book.
Fake Friends
Fake Friends (2020): Rowan comes home hoping to earn Circus’s forgiveness, then agrees to pose with him for a modeling job while both men struggle with the damage left by their former friendship.
This second-chance story continues the Sunbury setting and introduces more of the group surrounding Roo and Tanner.
Getting Friendly
Getting Friendly (2021): Construction-company owner Leon hires determined apprentice Auggie, creating a workplace romance between a protective employer and the smaller man who refuses to let anyone dismiss his ambitions.
Read it third so Leon’s friendships and role in the community are already established.
Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire (2021): Two former friends confront the unexplained break in their relationship while attraction, old loyalty, and the wider Sunbury group make permanent distance impossible.
The novel closes the main four-book series by resolving another friendship that has already affected the group.
Friends with Benefits
Friends with Benefits (2021): A friendship changes when two men experiment with adding physical intimacy, only to discover that the arrangement cannot remain emotionally uncomplicated.
This is bonus material rather than a fifth full-length Never Just Friends novel. Read it after the main series or according to the characters identified in the edition you have.
Never Just Friends Reading Verdict
Read the four principal novels in order:
- Just Friends
- Fake Friends
- Getting Friendly
- Friendly Fire
Add Friends with Benefits afterward as an optional shorter story.
Frat Wars Books in Order
Frat Wars follows two rival fraternity houses whose pranks, competitions, leadership disputes, and social events repeatedly bring their members together.
The books change couples, but the escalating rivalry and shared campus cast make publication order important.
King of Thieves
King of Thieves (2021): Chad and Bailey become caught between attraction and loyalty when a fraternity prank war puts men from opposing houses in one another’s path.
The novel establishes Sigma Beta Psi, Rho Kappa Tau, and the competitive campus culture behind the series.
Master of Mayhem
Master of Mayhem (2022): Fun-loving Robbie becomes fascinated by the idea of experimenting with men and turns to responsible fraternity brother Brandon, whose cautious personality makes him an unexpected partner.
Their romance expands the fraternity group while continuing the rivalry introduced in King of Thieves.
Presidential Chaos
Presidential Chaos (2022): Rival fraternity presidents Zeke and Charles face rumors, leadership pressure, and a relationship they cannot safely acknowledge while responsible for opposing houses.
This book brings the original college arc to its main conclusion. Earlier couples and fraternity conflicts remain active around them.
A Harrowing Christmas
A Harrowing Christmas (2023): Members of the fraternity group reunite for holiday chaos, relationship updates, and a family tradition that proves their competition has not disappeared after graduation.
This is an optional follow-up. Read it after Presidential Chaos.
Royal Scoundrel
Royal Scoundrel (2025): A romance involving the older generation connected to the fraternity cast reveals family history that predates the campus rivalry.
The story is a prequel by timeline, but it is better read after the original trilogy. Its family connections carry more meaning once readers know the younger characters.
Frat Wars Recommended Order
Publication order gives the best balance:
- King of Thieves
- Master of Mayhem
- Presidential Chaos
- A Harrowing Christmas
- Royal Scoundrel
Reading Royal Scoundrel first would follow chronology, but it would remove the intended recognition of its family connections.
Divorced Men’s Club Books in Order
Divorced Men’s Club follows older men who have experienced divorce, separation, widowhood, or major relationship change. The group provides friendship, advice, and frequent interference while each member attempts to build a new life.
The main series contains six novels. Making Him Mine is an optional prequel.
Making Him Mine
Making Him Mine (2022): Leif pursues the man he wants before the main Divorced Men’s Club stories begin, offering a shorter introduction to the people and relationships surrounding the group.
This prequel is optional. It can be read before Roommate Arrangement or after meeting the club.
Roommate Arrangement
Roommate Arrangement (2022): Payne needs somewhere to live and moves in with a man whose presence makes their supposedly practical arrangement increasingly difficult to keep platonic.
The novel introduces the club and its mixture of friendship, divorce recovery, and second chances.
Platonic Rulebook
Platonic Rulebook (2022): Griff leaves his marriage and creates rules intended to keep a close friendship uncomplicated, only to learn that emotional and physical boundaries are harder to enforce than they appear.
The story continues the club’s social circle while moving another member into a new relationship.
Budding Attraction
Budding Attraction (2022): Ford begins noticing florist Orson Naples in a new way, turning familiar community contact into a romance shaped by grief, age, and the possibility of starting again.
The book develops one of the club’s quieter relationships and introduces characters who appear around later Saxon James stories.
Employing Patience
Employing Patience (2023): An employer and the younger man in his orbit attempt to resist attraction while work, family responsibility, and the Divorced Men’s Club make emotional distance increasingly unrealistic.
This installment should remain fourth because previous couples continue to participate in the group.
System Overload
System Overload (2023): A divorced father becomes involved with a younger man connected to his son, creating an age-gap romance complicated by family boundaries and fear of damaging an important relationship.
Read it after Employing Patience to preserve the club’s ongoing developments.
Forgotten Romance
Forgotten Romance (2024): An established history between two men must be reconstructed after memory loss disrupts the relationship and leaves one partner carrying feelings the other cannot fully remember.
The sixth novel concludes the principal Divorced Men’s Club sequence with another chance to rebuild a life after loss.
Divorced Men’s Club Reading Verdict
The clean order is:
- Making Him Mine
- Roommate Arrangement
- Platonic Rulebook
- Budding Attraction
- Employing Patience
- System Overload
- Forgotten Romance
The prequel is optional. The six numbered novels are best read in order because the club changes as each member finds a partner.
Accidental Love Books in Order
Accidental Love follows a found family of roommates and friends whose relationships begin through mistakes, temporary agreements, revenge plans, close friendships, and unwanted attraction.
This series has five full-length novels plus two shorter companion stories.
The Anti-Wingman
The Anti-Wingman (2022): A man who is supposed to help his friend find romantic success becomes an obstacle when his own feelings make supporting someone else’s love life increasingly difficult.
This prequel introduces the emotional and friendship style of the series. It is optional.
The Husband Hoax
The Husband Hoax (2023): Christian needs a partner for a family wedding and enters a marriage-of-convenience arrangement that brings him into the chaotic household at the center of the series.
The novel establishes the Seattle found family and is the best full-length starting point.
Not Dating Material
Not Dating Material (2023): Molly moves to Seattle hoping for a new beginning and becomes involved with a gruff roommate who does not appear interested in becoming anyone’s boyfriend.
The romance continues the household established in The Husband Hoax.
The Revenge Agenda
The Revenge Agenda (2024): Rush discovers that his boyfriend has been cheating and joins forces with another injured party, turning a plan for revenge into a relationship neither man anticipated.
The book brings new characters into the same found-family circle while previous couples remain visible.
Just Bromantically Invested
Just Bromantically Invested (2024): Two best friends whose lives are already emotionally intertwined struggle to recognize when their supposedly bromantic attachment has become a romantic partnership.
This fourth novel depends on the friendship group established in the earlier books.
Not Catching Love
Not Catching Love (2025): Health-anxious Xander watches his roommates pair off and becomes fixated on the one person he believes he cannot have, forcing him to confront his fear that lasting connection may never happen for him.
This is the fifth and final main Accidental Love novel. Read it after the other roommates’ stories.
Friend for Hire
Friend for Hire: A man offers companionship or practical friendship as a service, only for the arrangement to create a genuine attachment that cannot remain transactional.
This shorter story belongs to the Accidental Love orbit and is optional rather than a sixth main novel.
Accidental Love Reading Verdict
Use this order:
- The Anti-Wingman
- The Husband Hoax
- Not Dating Material
- The Revenge Agenda
- Just Bromantically Invested
- Not Catching Love
- Friend for Hire
The two shorter works are optional. The five principal novels should remain in order because each new relationship changes the shared home.
The Wilde Men Books in Order
The Wilde Men series is a newer family-centered continuity following men connected to Wilde’s End. Its stories combine complicated family backgrounds, close community ties, emotional recovery, and relationships that challenge how each hero sees himself.
Wilde’s End
Wilde’s End (2025): Hudson returns to a place and family history he has complicated reasons to avoid, where one reckless decision brings him into a relationship capable of changing what home means to him.
The novel introduces the Wilde family and the setting required for the later books.
Ziggy’s Voice
Ziggy’s Voice (2026): Kennedy, a man who has always believed in relationships, becomes involved with Ziggy, whose personality and past make communication, trust, and being truly heard central to their romance.
Read it second because the Wilde family and community have already been established.
Lynx’s Ruin
Lynx’s Ruin (2026): Lynx becomes the third Wilde man to face the family damage, loyalty, and attraction capable of undoing the defenses he has built.
The novel is scheduled for October 29, 2026. It remains forthcoming as of this update, so final publication details may change.
The Wilde Men Reading Verdict
Read the series in publication order:
- Wilde’s End
- Ziggy’s Voice
- Lynx’s Ruin
The first two are published. The third is forthcoming.
CU Hockey Books in Order
CU Hockey is co-written by Saxon James and Eden Finley. The series follows college hockey players, roommates, rivals, teammates, and men connected to the fictional CU campus.
The five main novels form one friendship and team sequence. They also provide useful background for Puckboys and other books in the wider shared universe.
Power Plays & Straight A’s
Power Plays & Straight A’s (2020): Hockey player Foster asks his academic, hockey-averse brother Seth to help a struggling teammate, creating a slow-building romance between two men with very different relationships to the sport.
The novel introduces CU’s hockey team and the friendship group behind the series.
Face Offs & Cheap Shots
Face Offs & Cheap Shots (2020): Rival teammates Jacobs and Beck compete for the same leadership role, turning years of antagonism into a relationship neither expected to find beneath their hostility.
Read it second because the team dynamics and both players are established through the opening book.
Goal Lines & First Times
Goal Lines & First Times (2021): Two men form a connection through online messages without realizing how closely their real lives already overlap, creating an identity complication inside the CU social circle.
The story expands the series beyond the simplest teammate pairing while keeping the hockey group central.
Line Mates & Study Dates
Line Mates & Study Dates (2021): A hockey player who needs academic help becomes closely involved with the student assigned to assist him, turning study sessions and team pressure into a relationship.
Earlier CU couples remain present, making fourth position preferable.
Puck Drills & Quick Thrills
Puck Drills & Quick Thrills (2021): A former CU player and an older single father confront attraction, family responsibility, and an age difference as the original college group moves toward adult life.
This fifth novel completes the main CU Hockey sequence and helps bridge the college generation toward the professional world.
CU Hockey Reading Verdict
Read the five books in order:
- Power Plays & Straight A’s
- Face Offs & Cheap Shots
- Goal Lines & First Times
- Line Mates & Study Dates
- Puck Drills & Quick Thrills
The couples change, but friendships, team roles, graduation, and later career developments accumulate across the series.
Puckboys Books in Order
Puckboys is co-written by Saxon James and Eden Finley. It follows professional hockey players, former rivals, friends, teammates, and men connected through the Queer Collective found family.
The books are interconnected standalones. Each romance has its own ending, but the Collective grows steadily and previous couples return often.
Egotistical Puckboy
Egotistical Puckboy (2022): Rival hockey stars Ezra and Anton are forced to play for the same team, where years of hostility become increasingly difficult to separate from attraction.
The novel creates the professional hockey setting and launches the Queer Collective.
Irresponsible Puckboy
Irresponsible Puckboy (2022): Dex asks his best friend Tripp to help him escape another disastrous wedding decision, leading to a fake marriage that exposes the depth of their attachment.
This friends-to-lovers romance expands the Collective beyond rivalry and establishes one of its most central couples.
Shameless Puckboy
Shameless Puckboy (2022): Hockey player Oskar becomes involved with the public-relations professional assigned to control his scandals, turning image management into a secret and professionally dangerous relationship.
The book continues the team’s public controversies and found-family connections.
Foolish Puckboy
Foolish Puckboy (2023): A hockey player and a man connected to his closest circle fall into a relationship complicated by reputation, loyalty, and the fear that acting on attraction will damage existing bonds.
Previous Puckboys couples remain active around the central romance.
Clueless Puckboy
Clueless Puckboy (2023): A player fails to recognize the emotional reality of a close relationship until changing circumstances force him to reconsider what he and the other man already mean to each other.
The novel uses the established Collective to explore an attachment obvious to almost everyone except the central hero.
Bromantic Puckboy
Bromantic Puckboy (2024): Two men whose friendship already resembles a partnership struggle to identify when loyalty, domestic closeness, and dependence have moved beyond bromance.
This sixth book continues the series’ pattern of teammates and friends becoming part of the Collective.
Forbidden Puckboy
Forbidden Puckboy (2024): Attraction develops across a boundary created by family, friendship, or professional loyalty, placing another hockey romance at risk of disrupting the wider group.
Read it seventh because the supporting relationships define why the central pairing feels forbidden.
Possessive Puckboy
Possessive Puckboy (2025): A protective hockey player becomes increasingly unable to hide how strongly he wants the man at the center of his attention, turning casual expectations into an intense relationship.
The Queer Collective’s accumulated friendships provide support and interference throughout the romance.
Stubborn Puckboy
Stubborn Puckboy (2025): Two determined men resist changing their expectations even as hockey, attraction, and repeated contact make their original positions impossible to maintain.
This ninth installment prepares the series for its final expansion of the Collective.
Charming Puckboy
Charming Puckboy (2026): A hockey player’s long-standing crush collides with friendship, charity events, and the close-knit family created around the Queer Collective.
This is the tenth and final Puckboys novel. It should be read after Stubborn Puckboy for the complete group progression.
Puckboys Reading Verdict
Use publication order:
- Egotistical Puckboy
- Irresponsible Puckboy
- Shameless Puckboy
- Foolish Puckboy
- Clueless Puckboy
- Bromantic Puckboy
- Forbidden Puckboy
- Possessive Puckboy
- Stubborn Puckboy
- Charming Puckboy
The books can be understood individually, but reading all ten in order preserves team changes, Collective membership, weddings, and recurring relationship updates.
Should CU Hockey Be Read Before Puckboys?
Yes, when you want the complete shared-universe experience.
CU Hockey follows the college generation and introduces characters, connections, and sporting careers that feed into the professional hockey world. Puckboys later widens the universe through the Queer Collective.
Readers interested only in Puckboys can begin with Egotistical Puckboy. The central rivalry is fully explained within that novel.
Franklin U Shared-World Books
Franklin U is a multi-author college-romance world. Saxon James contributed one book to the original Franklin U collection and another to Franklin U2.
The surrounding installments are written by other authors and are not part of Saxon James’s private series numbering.
The Dating Disaster
The Dating Disaster (2022): Two Franklin University students with a history of failed or uncomfortable romantic encounters are pushed into repeated contact until their assumptions about compatibility begin to change.
The romance stands alone. Other Franklin U books are optional.
A Stealthy Situation
A Stealthy Situation (2024): A secretive college relationship develops under circumstances that make being seen, identified, or emotionally exposed especially risky.
This belongs to the second Franklin U shared-world collection. It is not a sequel to The Dating Disaster.
Dashwood Academy
Dashwood Academy is another multi-author academic shared world.
Saxon James’s contribution should be read as an independent central romance unless an edition specifically identifies crossover scenes from another author’s installment. Completing every Dashwood Academy book is optional.
Because shared-world numbering can vary by retailer and release season, the author and title are more reliable identifiers than a global book number.
Standalone and Separate-Continuity Novels
These books do not require one of Saxon James’s numbered solo series.
Up in Flames
Up in Flames (2023): Co-written with Eden Finley, this romance follows two men caught in the aftermath of destruction, family conflict, or a life-changing mistake that forces them into close contact.
The novel belongs to the wider Eden Finley and Saxon James network, but it is presented as a complete standalone.
Himbo Hitman
Himbo Hitman (2025): An enthusiastic but questionably skilled hitman becomes responsible for a wanted man, turning an attempted criminal assignment into a chaotic romance involving danger, pursuit, and a missing-person mystery.
This is a separate romantic comedy with action elements. It is not connected to Frat Wars or Accidental Love.
Money Shot
Money Shot (2025): Co-written with Eden Finley, the novel follows men whose professional image, money, or highly public work complicates a relationship that refuses to remain purely practical.
It is a standalone collaboration rather than a numbered Puckboys installment.
Home Ice
Home Ice (2026): Hawke returns after leaving for the NHL and tries to repair the friendship he abandoned when Kasen’s own hockey dreams collapsed, only to find that reaching him may require help from Kasen’s coach.
The story combines former friends, professional hockey, resentment, and a relationship shaped by the consequences of one man leaving. It is currently presented as a standalone.
Short Stories and Website Exclusives
Saxon James has released several short works through newsletters, direct-store editions, promotions, or bonus collections.
Total Fabrication
Total Fabrication (2019): A false story or invented relationship creates a romantic complication when the people involved must make the fabrication convincing.
This is an independent shorter work.
Making Him Mine
Making Him Mine (2022): Leif’s pre-series romance introduces the Divorced Men’s Club circle before the main six novels.
Read it before Roommate Arrangement or as bonus material afterward.
The Anti-Wingman
The Anti-Wingman (2022): A supposed helper becomes a romantic obstacle when his feelings interfere with his friend’s attempts to date.
It is the Accidental Love prequel.
A Harrowing Christmas
A Harrowing Christmas (2023): The Frat Wars group reunites for holiday traditions, chaotic friendship, and updates on established couples.
Read it after Presidential Chaos.
Friend for Hire
Friend for Hire: Paid or arranged companionship develops into a real emotional bond inside the Accidental Love circle.
It is optional and should not be counted as a numbered main novel.
Friends with Benefits
Friends with Benefits (2021): Friends test a physical arrangement and discover that their emotional connection is already stronger than the rules they create.
This is supplementary Never Just Friends material.
Alternate Titles and Editions
The largest catalog problem occurs with Reckless Love.
Denial and Good Times and Tan Lines are the same story.
Risky and Bet on Me are the same story.
Tempting and Calling Your Bluff are the same story.
Illustrated editions, model-cover editions, audio editions, bundles, and special hardcovers also contain stories already listed. They should not be counted as new novels.
The Frat Wars special collection may include Royal Scoundrel, bonus scenes, extended epilogues, and previously released short material. Check the contents before buying it alongside separate editions.
Boxed Sets and Bundles
Never Just Friends Bundle
Never Just Friends Bundle: Collects the four main Sunbury romances without adding another full-length couple.
Divorced Men’s Club Bundle
Divorced Men’s Club Bundle: Collects the six principal club novels and may include Making Him Mine, depending on the edition.
Accidental Love Bundle
Accidental Love Bundle: Packages the five main found-family novels, with some direct editions also offering related short stories.
Reckless Love Bundle
Reckless Love Bundle: Contains Denial, Risky, and Tempting, which are the retitled editions of the original Love’s a Gamble stories.
Frat Wars Collection
Frat Wars Collection: Collects the original trilogy and may add Royal Scoundrel, holiday material, prequels, or extended epilogues.
CU Hockey Collection
CU Hockey Collection: Packages the five co-written college hockey novels.
Puckboys Collections
Puckboys Collections: Bundles portions of the ten-book professional hockey series. The exact book range depends on the edition.
Bundles are optional purchase formats. They do not change the reading order.
A Practical Sadenverse Order
The full shared universe created by Eden Finley and Saxon James includes books written separately by Eden Finley, books co-written by both authors, and crossover characters from several related series.
A complete universe-level chronology is more complicated than a Saxon James bibliography because it includes Eden Finley’s Fake Boyfriend, Famous, Mike Bravo Ops, and other connected books.
For a Saxon James-focused route, use:
- CU Hockey
- Puckboys
- Relevant co-written standalones
This preserves the clearest college-to-professional hockey progression without requiring every Eden Finley title.
Readers completing the entire Sadenverse should follow a dedicated combined guide because publication dates and crossover placements extend beyond Saxon James’s own bibliography.
Saxon James Books in Broad Publication Order
This list includes the principal solo novels and major co-written releases. Short promotional stories and alternate editions are not counted twice.
- Denial (2019): Rainer escapes to an island while trying to avoid the feelings and conflict waiting at home.
- Risky (2020): A revenge-driven wager turns into a romance that threatens the purpose of the bet.
- Tempting (2020): Zane and Liam face a second chance after years apart.
- Just Friends (2020): Roo returns to tell lifelong friend Tanner that he has always wanted more.
- Fake Friends (2020): Rowan seeks Circus’s forgiveness and becomes his fake partner for a modeling job.
- Power Plays & Straight A’s (2020): A college hockey player and an academically focused student connect through tutoring and family.
- Face Offs & Cheap Shots (2020): Rival teammates compete for leadership while hostility turns into attraction.
- Goal Lines & First Times (2021): An online connection creates romantic confusion within the CU social circle.
- Getting Friendly (2021): Construction boss Leon falls for apprentice Auggie.
- Friendly Fire (2021): Former friends confront the rupture that separated them.
- Line Mates & Study Dates (2021): Academic help places a hockey player in repeated contact with a student he cannot ignore.
- Puck Drills & Quick Thrills (2021): A former college player becomes involved in an age-gap romance with a single father.
- King of Thieves (2021): Attraction crosses rival fraternity lines during an escalating prank war.
- Roommate Arrangement (2022): A practical housing arrangement becomes emotionally intimate.
- Platonic Rulebook (2022): A newly divorced man’s rules fail to keep friendship separate from romance.
- Budding Attraction (2022): Ford begins seeing florist Orson as more than a familiar face.
- Master of Mayhem (2022): Robbie experiments with responsible fraternity brother Brandon.
- Presidential Chaos (2022): Rival fraternity presidents conceal a relationship during a leadership crisis.
- Egotistical Puckboy (2022): Hockey rivals Ezra and Anton are forced onto the same team.
- Irresponsible Puckboy (2022): Best friends Dex and Tripp enter a fake marriage after another wedding disaster.
- Shameless Puckboy (2022): A scandal-prone player becomes involved with the man managing his public image.
- The Dating Disaster (2022): A Franklin U romance grows from repeated romantic missteps.
- Employing Patience (2023): Workplace boundaries complicate another Divorced Men’s Club relationship.
- System Overload (2023): A divorced father faces an age-gap attraction involving someone connected to his son.
- The Husband Hoax (2023): A relationship arrangement brings Christian into a chaotic Seattle found family.
- Not Dating Material (2023): Molly falls for a gruff roommate after moving to Seattle.
- Foolish Puckboy (2023): A professional hockey romance tests loyalty within the established Collective.
- Clueless Puckboy (2023): A player slowly recognizes that a close attachment is already love.
- Up in Flames (2023): Two men form a relationship while dealing with the aftermath of a destructive life change.
- Forgotten Romance (2024): Memory loss forces an established emotional history to be rebuilt.
- The Revenge Agenda (2024): Two men hurt by the same cheating partner turn revenge into an unexpected romance.
- Just Bromantically Invested (2024): Best friends confront how closely their bond resembles a partnership.
- Bromantic Puckboy (2024): A hockey friendship becomes impossible to describe as merely platonic.
- Forbidden Puckboy (2024): Attraction crosses a boundary created by loyalty, family, or professional ties.
- A Stealthy Situation (2024): A hidden Franklin U relationship becomes harder to protect.
- Not Catching Love (2025): Xander fears being left behind as the other members of his household find partners.
- Royal Scoundrel (2025): An older-generation romance reveals family history connected to Frat Wars.
- Wilde’s End (2025): Hudson’s return to a complicated home begins the Wilde family series.
- Possessive Puckboy (2025): A protective player’s intense attachment develops into a committed romance.
- Stubborn Puckboy (2025): Two determined men resist the changes their relationship demands.
- Himbo Hitman (2025): A badly suited assassin and a wanted man become partners in chaotic survival.
- Money Shot (2025): Public work, money, or image complicates a co-written standalone romance.
- Ziggy’s Voice (2026): Kennedy and Ziggy build a relationship centered on trust and being understood.
- Charming Puckboy (2026): A long-standing crush becomes the final romance in the Puckboys sequence.
- Home Ice (2026): Former friends divided by lost hockey dreams confront abandonment and unfinished feelings.
- Lynx’s Ruin (2026): The forthcoming third Wilde Men novel continues the family’s emotional and romantic story.
Which Series Require the Strictest Order?
CU Hockey, Puckboys, Frat Wars, and Accidental Love gain the most from publication order because their team, fraternity, and household relationships progress continuously.
Divorced Men’s Club also rewards order, although each member’s romantic conflict is independently resolved.
Never Just Friends is flexible at the plot level, but beginning with Just Friends gives Sunbury and its friendship group a natural introduction.
The standalones can be placed anywhere.
Is There a Chronological Order?
A separate chronology is not useful for most of Saxon James’s solo bibliography.
Royal Scoundrel occurs before the main Frat Wars books, but reading it first weakens the later family recognition. Recommended order should therefore remain publication order.
The larger Sadenverse has cross-series chronology, but a complete version requires books by Eden Finley that fall outside a Saxon James-only article.
Within CU Hockey and Puckboys, publication order already gives readers the clearest movement from college players to professional careers and an expanding found family.
Latest Saxon James Book
Home Ice (2026): Hawke returns after pursuing an NHL career and tries to repair his relationship with Kasen, the former friend who believes he was abandoned when his own hockey future disappeared.
The novel was released on June 25, 2026. It is Saxon James’s latest published book as of August 4, 2026.
Home Ice is a standalone hockey romance. Readers do not need to complete CU Hockey or Puckboys first.
Upcoming Saxon James Book
Lynx’s Ruin (2026): Lynx becomes the third central member of the Wilde family to confront a romance shaped by family damage, loyalty, and the possibility of losing the defenses that have protected him.
The book is scheduled for October 29, 2026. It is The Wilde Men Book 3 and should be read after Wilde’s End and Ziggy’s Voice.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Saxon James’s First Book?
Denial (2019): Rainer escapes to a tropical island while attempting to avoid an emotional conflict and the feelings behind it.
It was first published as Good Times and Tan Lines.
What Is the Best Saxon James Book to Start With?
Begin with Just Friends for small-town romance.
Begin with Roommate Arrangement for older heroes and a strong friendship-group series. Choose Power Plays & Straight A’s for college hockey or Egotistical Puckboy for professional hockey.
Are All Saxon James Books Connected?
No.
The solo series have separate central settings and casts, although occasional crossover references may appear. CU Hockey and Puckboys belong to the larger co-written Sadenverse.
What Is the Sadenverse?
The Sadenverse is the shared fictional universe associated with Saxon James and Eden Finley.
It includes their co-written hockey books and several connected Eden Finley series. A complete reading order therefore contains books not written by Saxon James.
Should CU Hockey Be Read Before Puckboys?
Yes, for maximum continuity.
CU Hockey introduces college players and relationships that help establish the wider world. Puckboys moves into professional hockey and the Queer Collective.
Can Puckboys Be Read as Standalones?
The central romances are individually complete.
Reading in order is still recommended because teammates, friends, couples, weddings, and Collective membership carry across all ten novels.
How Many Puckboys Books Are There?
There are ten principal books:
- Egotistical Puckboy
- Irresponsible Puckboy
- Shameless Puckboy
- Foolish Puckboy
- Clueless Puckboy
- Bromantic Puckboy
- Forbidden Puckboy
- Possessive Puckboy
- Stubborn Puckboy
- Charming Puckboy
The series is co-written with Eden Finley.
Is Charming Puckboy the Final Puckboys Book?
Yes. Charming Puckboy is the tenth and final announced principal installment.
The wider shared universe can continue through other series even though Puckboys itself is complete.
How Many CU Hockey Books Are There?
There are five main novels.
They begin with Power Plays & Straight A’s and end with Puck Drills & Quick Thrills.
Are Good Times and Tan Lines and Denial Different Books?
No.
Good Times and Tan Lines was retitled Denial. The same applies to Bet on Me and Risky, and to Calling Your Bluff and Tempting.
Should Royal Scoundrel Be Read First Chronologically?
No.
Although it involves the older generation, it was written to expand family connections already known from Frat Wars. Read it after Presidential Chaos.
Is Making Him Mine Required Before Roommate Arrangement?
No.
It is a prequel to Divorced Men’s Club, but Roommate Arrangement introduces the main series adequately.
Is The Anti-Wingman Required?
No.
It is an optional Accidental Love prequel. New readers can begin with The Husband Hoax.
Is Not Catching Love the Final Accidental Love Book?
Yes.
It is the fifth main novel and completes the central Seattle household’s sequence.
Are The Dating Disaster and A Stealthy Situation Connected?
They share the Franklin U branding, but they follow different couples and belong to different rounds of the multi-author project.
Neither is a direct sequel to the other.
Is Home Ice Part of Puckboys?
No.
It is a separate hockey romance. No earlier Sadenverse reading is required.
What Is Saxon James’s Latest Series?
The Wilde Men is her newest solo series.
It begins with Wilde’s End, continues with Ziggy’s Voice, and is scheduled to add Lynx’s Ruin in October 2026.
Final Reading Recommendation
For Saxon James’s solo work, begin with Just Friends, then explore Frat Wars, Divorced Men’s Club, and Accidental Love as separate friendship-based continuities. Read each series in publication order, but do not force them into one artificial timeline.
For the co-written hockey universe, begin with Power Plays & Straight A’s and complete all five CU Hockey books. Continue with Egotistical Puckboy and read the ten Puckboys novels in order through Charming Puckboy.
Readers interested in the newest solo continuity should begin The Wilde Men with Wilde’s End. Readers who want one self-contained current hockey romance can go directly to Home Ice.
Frank is the editor of BookSeries.blog, focusing on publication order, chronological timelines, and spoiler-free reading guides for book series and fictional universes.